Related Log24 posts …
See Vox Lux and Mathieu Omega.
Related book cover …
The exercise posted here on Sept. 11, 2022, suggests a
more precisely stated problem . . .
The 24 coordinate-positions of the 4096 length-24 words of the
extended binary Golay code G24 can be arranged in a 4×6 array
in, of course, 24! ways.
Some of these ways are more geometrically natural than others.
See, for instance, the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis.
What is the size of the largest subcode C of G24 that can be
arranged in a 4×6 array in such a way that the set of words of C
is invariant under the symmetry group of the rectangle itself, i.e. the
four-group of the identity along with horizontal and vertical reflections
and 180-degree rotation.
Recent Log24 posts tagged Bitspace describe the structure of
an 8-dimensional (256-word) code in a 4×6 array that has such
symmetry, but it is not yet clear whether that "cube-motif" code
is a Golay subcode. (Its octads are Golay, but possibly not all its
dodecads; the octads do not quite generate the entire code.)
Magma may have an answer, but I have had little experience in
its use.
* Footnote of 30 September 2022. The 4×6 problem is a
special case of a more general symmetric embedding problem.
Given a linear code C and a mapping of C to parts of a geometric
object A with symmetry group G, what is the largest subcode of C
invariant under G? What is the largest such subcode under all
such mappings from C to A?
Update of 5:20 AM ET on Sept. 29. 2022 —
The octads of the [24, 8, 8] cube-motif code
can be transformed by the permutation below
into octads recognizable, thanks to the Miracle
Octad Generator (MOG) of R. T. Curtis, as
belonging to the Golay code.

The title is by Henry James.*
For examples, see the Sept. 19 webpage below . . .
… and, in this journal, posts from that same date now tagged Cube Codes.
*

For connoisseurs of bullshit, from The New Yorker yesterday —
“A Trip to Infinity” and the Delicate Art
|
"The actor Nick Offerman, himself an accomplished woodworker
and a member of Ms. Hiller’s legion of admirers, called her an
'Obi-Wan Kenobi level master.'"
— The New York Times this evening, obituary by Clay Risen
for Nancy Hiller.
Related woodwork note —
In memory of historical novelist Hilary Mantel, who reportedly
died yesterday, two images dealing with this year's Sept. 11 —
The image from Rome was suggested by yesterday's Dürer post and
by the year 1514 in the life of Thomas Cromwell, Mantel's main topic.
Jung’s four-diamond figure from
Aion — a symbol of the self –
For those who prefer the Ed Wood approach —
The previous post's image illustrating the
ancient Lo Shu square as an affine transformation
suggests a similar view of Dürer's square.
That view illustrates the structural principle
underlying the diamond theorem —

See as well . . .
Three-color patterns from 1964,
rendered as shades of grey —
A rather different approach —

The above image is from a tweet dated Jan. 11, 2018.
Related material from this journal — That date, in posts
now tagged In the Bag. Those posts are followups to
a remark by Nabokov:
"A good public narrative can, at the best of times,
transform an art theft into a lucky break for the gallery."
From a search in this journal for Goya —
From "Raiders of the Lost Space," Sept. 11, 2022 —
A related technique appears in a 1989 paper by Cheng and Sloane
that I saw for the first time today:
A linear code of length 24, dimension 8, and minimum weight 8
(a "[24, 8, 8] code") that was discussed in recent posts tagged
Bitspace might, viewed as a vector space, be called "motif space."
Yesterday evening's post "From a Literature Search for Binary [24, 8, 8] Codes"
has been updated. A reference from that update —
Computer Science > Information Theory
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| Comments: | To appear in IEEE Trans. on Information Theory Vol. 24 No. 8 |
| Subjects: | Information Theory (cs.IT) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:cs/0607074 [cs.IT] |
From Peng and Farrell, 2006 —

For one example of a binary [24, 8, 8] code, see other bitspace posts.
It is not clear whether that example is a subcode of the Golay code.
See also
http://www.codetables.de/BKLC/
Tables.php?q=2&n0=1&n1=256&k0=1&k1=256
and
http://www.codetables.de/BKLC/BKLC.php?q=2&n=12&k=8 .
Update of 3:22 AM ET on 20 September 2022 —
Update of 3:44 AM ET 20 September 2022 —
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